It always seems like a pity to just recycle perfectly good watertight bottles without giving a go at what else I can use them for.

Maybe I could use them while painting. If I mix a good color, i can just seal it up and continue to use that color next time (so it won't dry out) I could even put a dab on the outside so i know what color it contains.

We also started using them for coins, Pennies, dimes, nickles and quarters in their own bottles, and kept in the car for laundry runs/toll roads/filling water bottles.

In my travel bag I have qtips in the small ones, cotton balls in the woder ones, toothpaste squirted into one, liquid soap in the baby-seal ones and even mouthwash in one.

I will keep plugging away. :-)

When I do end up with more bottles than I can use, I put them in a large ziplock, write craft supplies on the bag with a sharpie, and give the bags to Goodwill.

I make sure to take off prescription stickers first, unless they are simply vitamin bottles.

I put all my change into a bin in my car - I don't care any on me at all or have any in the house. Then when we need to stop at a fast food restaurant for some reason I try to use up a pile of the change. I don't pay the whole bill in change But I do give them some of it and actually they usually need change so it works out well for them too.

Newest idea for my Reuse area: I have a bin where I am storing my empty meds and vitamin bottles. My reuse area is starting to become very exciting. I am gathering old icky tables and putting my storage bins on them to keep them off the ground and at hand-height.

Have a lot of ideas for my resuse area. RIght now it's a lean to shed - a large one. With a tin roof, wood beams and dusty dirt floor. But collecting really cruddy desks and tables for this area has been genius.

Jilly - maybe you could enjoy the painting as a creative process and then sell them on Fiver for people to use as portable pill carriers! Or vitamin carriers ... lots of purposes. I bet people would love them!

Just do it as the mood hits you, as a fun mini painting project. That way it's not stressful and you know it will help others!

Seeds!! Now that's a GREAT idea. Each year when my husband gets in his shipment of seeds for the garden he just leaves the unused seeds in their little packet and the puts that back into the container they were shipped in - inevitably I pick up that container and the seeds spill everywhere because they little packets don't stay closed. I'll definitely have to use them as containers for his seeds next year!! Tying a string around my finger so I'll remember